Community News Items
Ferry County, Washington
Community News Items
Ferry County, Washington
Pat Brennan Honored
Old Time Anacondan Elected to Office in Washington.
It will be with pleasure that Anaconda people will learn of the good fortune that has befallen Pat S. Brenna, formerly of this city. He has just been installed as assessor of Ferry county, Wash., of which Republic is the county seat. Mr. Brennan was elected to office last fall by a majority greater than that of any other successful candidate, a fact which shows that true worth is recognized everywhere.
Mr. Brennan for time was a deputy sheriff in Anaconda during the first administration of Sheriff Fitzpatrick and was well known and deservedly popular throughout the community. his success in his new home will be a matter for congratulation among his Anaconda friends. (January 14, 1901, The Anaconda Standard, Anaconda Montana - Submitted by S. Williams)
Has School District to Himself
Johnny Jergensen, 11 years of age, probably occupies the most peculiar position of any pupil under the public school system in the United States. He is the only child of school age in the district near Kettle Falls, Ferry County, Washington, and has a teacher all to himself.
The instructor is M.R. Honeyman, formerly of Spokane, who took charge of the school early this month. There were three pupils in the beginning of the term, soon after which the parents of two of them moved out of the district, taking their children with them. The district is regularly organized and has a school board, with chairman, secretary and treasurer.
It also has ample funds to its credit, and in addition to this the state makes an appropriation of seven cents a school a day in the year for each pupil. This is the highest appropriation of any state in the union. (November 21, 1908, The Stevens Point Journal, Stevens Point Wisconsin - Submitted by S. Williams)
Would Abandon Railroad
Washington, Dec. 2-The Spokane and British Columbia Railway today applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to abandon the line in Ferry county, Washington. [December 2, 1920, Oakland Tribune, Oakland California -- Submitted by S. Williams]
